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Average between dates
Hi
I'm trying to calculate the average days elapsed ("orderdate" column) between order to order, for every customer. How can i do it?
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- Greg_DecklerCommunity Champion
Tomas1212 - Well, you are going to put your "customer" column in a table or matrix visualization and then create a measure that probably uses AVERAGEX at some point.
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3. Explanation in words of how to get from 1. to 2.- Tomas1212New Member
Thanks for your response!
But I still do not understand how I calculate the difference between the dates in the same column.
- mahoneypatMicrosoft Employee
I would suggest you do this with a calculated column in your order table with an expression like this
Days Since Last Order = VAR thisdate = Orders[OrderDate] VAR lastorderdate = CALCULATE ( MAX ( Orders[OrderDate] ), ALLEXCEPT ( Orders, Orders[Customer] ), Orders[OrderDate] < thisdate ) RETURN DATEDIFF ( lastorderdate, thisdate, DAY )Once you have that, you can simply use this as a measure to get your result
Avg Days Between Orders = AVERAGE(Orders[Days Since Last Order])
If this works for you, please mark it as the solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat